[1] He graduated from the Humanistisches Gymnasium in Heidelberg with the Abitur in 1949[2] and passed the bookseller's assistant exam in 1951.
At the same time, from 1945 he was a young student for piano at the former conservatory in Heidelberg,[3] which was later merged with the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim fusioniert wurde.
[3] From 1975 to 1995, he worked full-time as a pianist, teacher and methodology researcher in Hanover, and in 1977, he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.
[3] Meister was one of the first researchers to study externally recognisable movement sequences of famous pianists on the basis of video recordings.
Meister had been married to the composer and pianist Siegrid Ernst since 1957[4] and in second marriage since 1979, with the piano teacher Anne Hammann-Meister.